I loved Midnight! I love all of L.J. Smith's books. She just has a way of sucking you in that you can't escape. The book is really hard to put down. The bad news is that it ends on a huge cliffhanger and L.J. Smith can't write any more of the books thanks to the publishers.
This was posted on her website: “I fought tooth and nail to write those books--I fought until my agent wouldn't support me, when she said I would be sued and she wouldn't fight with me anymore, and I WROTE Phantom. But instead of edits what I got back was a letter to Clare the ghostwriter telling her to completely change my book. I HAD NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER. I was deceived by Alloy and got no support from Harper.”
Guess we'll really never know the truth of how the author intended to end TVD stories.